- 3109/06/1892Maxwell "Max" Woosnam (6 September 1892 ā 14 July 1965) was an English sportsman who is sometimes referred to as the 'Greatest British sportsman' in recognition of his achievements.Among his achievements were winning an Olympic gold and silver in tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics, winning the doubles at Wimbledon, compiling a 147 break in Snooker, making a century at Lord's Cricket Ground, captaining the British Davis Cup team, captaining Manchester City F.C. finishing ultimately runners-up for the Football League Championship in 1920ā21 and captaining the England national football team.
- 3208/01/1988Max Carver (born Robert Maxwell Martensen Jr;) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Preston Scavo in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, and as Aiden on the MTV teen-horror drama Teen Wolf. He starred in the first season of the HBO series The Leftovers. His twin brother Charlie Carver portrayed the twin of his characters in all three shows.
- 3312/04/1937Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is widely known for playing Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted nephew of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies.
- 3406/06/1967Max Casella (born Maximilian Deitch; June 6, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for his roles on the television series The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Doogie Howser, M.D., Vinyl, Cro and the voice of Daxter in the Jak and Daxter video game series.MoreĀ Max Casella
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- 3505/23/1973Gerald Maxwell Rivera (born May 23, 1973), also known by his stage name Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the "neo soul" movement that rose to prominence during the late 1990s.MoreĀ Maxwell
- #51 of 147 onThe 145+ Best R&B Artists Of All Time, Ranked
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- 3606/24/1991Max Ehrich is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for his roles as Fenmore Baldwin in The Young and the Restless, Hunter May in Under the Dome, and Freddie Ridge in The Path. He is currently appearing in American Princess.
- 3709/20/1981Max Amini (Persian: Ł Ś©Ų³ Ų§Ł ŪŁŪā, Persian pronunciation: [mƦks ƦmiĖniĖ] born in Tucson, Arizona) is an Iranian American comedian. He is bilingual in English and Persian. Max Amini was born in Tucson Arizona, to Iranian parents who immigrated to Arizona. He was raised on the East Coast where he went to a high school in Washington, D.C. and then moved to California and graduated from UCLA's school of Theater, Film and Television in 2004. As an actor, Max has numerous film and television credits including NBC's Heroes, regular appearances on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia, and a leading role in the film How Beer Pong Saved my Life.
- 3802/10/1981Max Brown may refer to: Max Brown (actor) (born 1981), English actor Max Brown (footballer), English footballer Max Brown (novelist) (1916ā2003), Australian novelist Max Brown (rugby league) (born 1946), Australian rugby league footballer Max Brown (politician) (died 2012), Australian politician
- 3904/02/1891Max Ernst (2 April 1891 ā 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottageāa technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of imagesā and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages.MoreĀ Max Ernst
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- 4009/16/1985Max Giorgio Choa Minghella (born 16 September 1985) is an English actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in several American films, making his debut in Bee Season (2005) before starring in Art School Confidential (2006), The Social Network (2010) and The Internship (2013). Minghella currently stars as Nick Blaine in the Hulu drama series The Handmaid's Tale.MoreĀ Max Minghella
- #30 of 111 on110+ Libra Moon Celebrities
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- Max Cooper is a London-based electronica and techno producer who has been releasing music since 2007. He has received positive criticism from magazines such as Clash and his best-known releases are the Serie trilogy, three dancefloor tracks that were accompanied by videos created by animator Whiskas Fx, who was inspired by different scientific and mathematical concepts. Cooper has released more than fifty original tracks and remixes, primarily on German label Traum Schallplatten. His remixes range from avant-garde composer Michael Nyman, to bands like Hot Chip and Au Revoir Simone, to techno acts such as Agoria and Dominik Eulberg.
- 4202/01/1977Max von SchlebrĆ¼gge (born 1 February 1977) is a retired Swedish footballer. He played centre back. He was signed by BrĆøndby in January 2008 from Anderlecht from Belgium.His last name comes from his paternal grandmother from Germany, who is an older half sister of actress Uma Thurman's mother Nena von SchlebrĆ¼gge, making Uma his first cousin once removed.
- 4303/28/1968Max Perlich (born March 28, 1968) is an American film and television actor.
- 4411/22/1947Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1944) is a Jamaican reggae and roots reggae recording artist who has achieved chart success in his home country and in the United Kingdom. Romeo had several hits with the vocal group the Emotions. His song "Wet Dream" (1968) included overtly sexual lyrics and launched a new style of reggae.
- 4508/18/1915Hubert Max Lanier (August 18, 1915 ā January 30, 2007) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals. He led the National League in earned run average in 1943, and was the winning pitcher of the clinching game in the 1944 World Series against the crosstown St. Louis Browns. His son Hal became a major league infielder and manager. Born in Denton, North Carolina, Lanier was one of a handful of players who remained active during the World War II years. A naturally right-handed player, he had become a left-handed pitcher only because he twice broke his right arm in childhood. After signing with the Cardinals in 1937, he reached the major leagues in 1938. He had arguably his best season in 1943, compiling a 15ā7 record with a league-best 1.90 ERA. In 1944 he won a career-high 17 games, and was the winner of the final game of the World Series against the crosstown Browns. He was named an NL All-Star in both 1943 and 1944. Lanier, along with a dozen other major leaguers, defected to the Mexican League in 1946 after being offered a salary nearly double what he was making with the Cardinals. Disappointed by poor playing conditions and allegedly broken contract promises, he tried to return to the Cardinals in 1948, but was barred by an order from commissioner Happy Chandler, imposing a five-year suspension on all players who had jumped to the Mexican League. In response, Lanier and teammate Fred Martin, as well as Danny Gardella of the New York Giants, sued Major League Baseball in federal court, challenging baseball's reserve clause as a violation of U.S. antitrust law (preceding the similar suit by Curt Flood some 25 years later). Chandler reinstated Lanier and the other players in June 1949. Lanier immediately held out for more money than he was being paid at the time of his leaving for Mexico, but eventually signed a contract paying him the same amount as in 1946.Lanier rejoined the Cardinals in 1949. After winning a total of 101 games for the club, he ended his career with the New York Giants (1952ā53) and the Browns (1953). Over fourteen seasons, Lanier posted a 108ā82 record with 821 strikeouts and a 3.01 ERA in 1619ā1ā3 innings pitched, including 21 shutouts and 91 complete games. Lanier died at age 91 in Dunnellon, Florida.
- 4607/06/1977Maksim Mikalaevich "Max" Mirnyi (Belarusian: ŠŠ°ŠŗŃŃŠ¼ ŠŃŠŗŠ°Š»Š°ŠµŠ²ŃŃ ŠŃŃŠ½Ń, pronounced [makĖsŹ²im ĖmŹ²irnÉØ]; Russian: ŠŠ°ŠŗŃŠøŠ¼ ŠŠøŠŗŠ¾Š»Š°ŠµŠ²ŠøŃ ŠŠøŃŠ½ŃŠ¹, pronounced [mÉkĖsŹ²im ĖmŹ²irnÉØj]; born 6 July 1977) is a Belarusian former professional tennis player. Mirnyi became a doubles specialist following his singles career, in which he reached a career-high of World No. 18 (August 2003) and finished in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years despite only winning one ATP singles title (2003 Rotterdam Open). He represented Belarus in Davis Cup competition from April 1994, where he holds a record of 47 wins and 27 losses in 35 ties played. He reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in June 2003 and won ten Grand Slam titles: Men's Doubles in the 2000 and 2002 US Open and the 2005, 2006, 2011 and 2012 French Open; and mixed doubles in the 1998, 2007, and 2013 U.S. Opens and 1998 Wimbledon. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Mirnyi carried the flag of Belarus at the Opening Ceremony on 27 July 2012, and won the Gold medal in the Mixed Doubles with Victoria Azarenka on 5 August 2012.MoreĀ Max Mirnyi
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- 4705/12/1956Max Montoya (born May 12, 1956) is a former professional American football guard who played 16 seasons in the National Football League.MoreĀ Max Montoya
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- 4805/19/1914Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 ā 6 February 2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Copley Medal in 1979. At Cambridge he founded and chaired (1962ā79) The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), fourteen of whose scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Perutz's contributions to molecular biology in Cambridge are documented in The History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4 (1870 to 1990) published by the Cambridge University Press in 1992.
- 4901/01/1973Max Valiquette is a Canadian culture and media expert and commentators. A marketer by trade, he was the president of Youthography, a Canadian youth marketing agency, which is where he gained renown. He is now employed by an advertising agency Bensimon Byrne as the Managing Director of Intellectual Property. Valiquette is best known as a TV host and commentator and a public speaker. He focuses primarily on media, youth and popular culture, and marketing. He is a regular contributor to CBC Radio and also a featured commentator on the television programme "What's in a Name." He hosted TVOntario's VoxTalk, a youth-issues talk show, and has appeared everywhere from MuchMusic, to CBC Television and Global TV. He is a speaker on issues pertaining to media and marketing in Canada and around the world, as well as the author of numerous industry articles. He has served three times as Chairperson of Strategy Magazine's "Understanding Youth Conference". He is a former Director of the Board of the Canada Media Fund.He previously performed as a sketch comedian in Toronto, including a performance at The Second City. He is a former Central Canadian Debating Champion.Valiquette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1973. He studied at the University of Ottawa where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 2005, he was named one of Marketing Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in Canadian Communications.
- 5010/09/1879Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 ā 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity, he had a number of administrative positions which advanced and guided German scientific research and development during four decades. A strong objector to Nazism, he was instrumental in re-establishing and organizing German science after World War II.
- 5101/01/1949Max Azria (Hebrew: ×קה ×¢××Ø××; Arabic: Ł Ų§ŁŲ³ Ų¹Ų²Ų±ŁŲ©) (January 1, 1949 ā May 6, 2019) was a Tunisia-born fashion designer who founded the contemporary women's clothing brand BCBGMAXAZRIA. Azria was also the designer, chairman and CEO of the BCBG Max Azria Group, a global fashion house that encompassed over 20 brands. Azria left BCBG in 2016. BCBG Max Azria filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and was sold to Marquee Brands and Global Brands Group. Later Azria served as the CEO of ZappLight.
- 5203/01/1920Maxwell Herbert Lloyd "Max" Bentley (March 1, 1920 ā January 19, 1984) was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) as part of a professional and senior career that spanned 20 years. He was the NHL's leading scorer twice in a row, and in 1946 won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player. He played in four All-Star Games and was twice named to a post-season All-Star team. Bentley was one of six hockey-playing brothers, and at one point played with four of his brothers with the Drumheller Miners of the Alberta Senior Hockey League. In 1942ā43, he made NHL history when he played on the league's first all-brother line with Doug and Reg. He played five seasons in Chicago with Doug before a 1947 trade sent him to the Maple Leafs in one of the most significant transactions in NHL history to that point. Bentley won three Stanley Cup championships with the Maple Leafs before spending a final NHL season with the Rangers in 1953ā54. He then returned to his home in Saskatoon to finish his playing career. Considered one of the best players of his era, Bentley was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966. Bentley was named one of the NHL's 100 greatest players of all-time by the NHL in 2017.
- 5311/30/1987Max-Alain Gradel (born 30 November 1987) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for Toulouse and the Ivory Coast national team. Max received his first call up to the Ivory Coast national team in November 2010. He made his debut for the national side on 5 June 2011. On 30 April 2011, Gradel won both the Fans Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year awards at Leeds. In June 2018, Max Gradel joined French club Toulouse.
- 5402/11/1909Maximilian Adelbert Baer (February 11, 1909 ā November 21, 1959) was an American boxer who was the World Heavyweight Champion from June 14, 1934 to June 13, 1935. His fights were twice (1933 win over Max Schmeling, 1935 loss to James J. Braddock) rated Fight of the Year by The Ring Magazine. Baer was also a boxing referee, and had an occasional role on film or television. He was the brother of heavyweight boxing contender Buddy Baer and father of actor Max Baer Jr.. Baer is rated #22 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.MoreĀ Max Baer
- 5505/15/1959Michael Cantor (May 15, 1959 āOctober 3, 1991) was an American journalist and actor in films such as Dirty Dancing (1987) and Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989).
- 5608/24/1942Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from the state of Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, and a former United States Senator. He has also served as Administrator of Veterans Affairs (now a Cabinet-level position). From 2003 to 2007, he served on the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a presidentially-appointed position. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. Since he left office in 2003, no other Democrat from Georgia has served a full term in the United States Senate.
- 5708/28/1978Max Collins may refer to: Max Collins (musician) (born 1978), American musician Max Allan Collins (born 1948), American mystery writer Max Collins (actress) (born 1992), Filipino American actress and model Max Collins (Vanished character)
- 5809/04/1906Max Ludwig Henning DelbrĆ¼ck (September 4, 1906 ā March 9, 1981), a GermanāAmerican biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by DelbrĆ¼ck along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called DelbrĆ¼ck scattering.
- 5910/01/1985Max Hall (born October 1, 1985) is a former American football quarterback. After playing college football for BYU, he was signed by the Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2010. Hall played in a total of six games as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Arizona Cardinals. Hall also spent the 2012 year as an assistant coach for BYU.
- 6012/09/1950Max Holland (born 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded, an internet newsletter on US history that began publishing March 11, 2007. He is currently a contributing editor to The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly, and sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. As of 2004 he had more than two decades of journalism experience; his articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at History News Network. Holland's published books include: Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012); The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (Knopf, 2004); The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Whittle Direct Books, 1994); and When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Harvard Business School Press, 1989). In 2011, he was the lead consultant for a National Geographic Television documentary about the Kennedy assassination that premiered in November 2011, entitled JFK: The Lost Bullet. The findings of the documentary were summarized in The DeRonja-Holland Report. In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism, for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency, the first writer working outside the U.S. government to be so recognized. Mr. Holland lives in Washington, DC. Holland is a 1972 graduate of Antioch College.
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